A Genealogy of Puberty Science: Monsters, Abnormals, and Everyone Else

by Catriona Ida Macleod, Pedro Pinto, Catriona MacLeod

Book Overview

A Genealogy of Puberty Science explores the modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault's genealogical analytic, Pinto and Macleod trace the birth of puberty science in the early 1800s and follow its expansion and shifting discursive frameworks over the course of two centuries.

Offering a critical inquiry into the epistemological and political roots of our present pubertal complex, this book breaks the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138295396
• ISBN13: 9781138295391
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"